Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!
From Bilbo Baggins <bma...@dolphin.upenn.edu>
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· 4 Jan 1995 18:06 · View full thread
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Dan Hornback (cre...@crl.com) wrote:
: val...@clark.net (T. M. Valentine) writes:
: >Bilbo Baggins (bma...@dolphin.upenn.edu) wrote:
: >: There are, there must be, *some* ground rules to pronunciation.
: Test Time:
: Jiff is to GIF as GHOTI is to _________.
Jiff (proposed pronunciation) is to GIF (actual spelling) as
Fish is to GHOTI....
This is not new. In fact, the whole point of that
GHOTI demonstration is that pronunciations can be surprising.
But for a thing to be surprising, it has to deviate from an expected
norm. That expected norm is structured by those ground rules that I'm
talking about.
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